Max Clifford ‘told me to have sex with David Bowie for film’

Max Clifford told a teenager she would have to sleep with David Bowie if she wanted a part in a film, a court heard.

The publicist said the dancer and part-time model was ‘very suitable’ for a part in the singer’s 1986 movie Labyrinth, the jury was told.

But she said he told her: ‘You need to do certain things to get further.’

Clifford allegedly told the woman, then 18, a dinner had been organised at a hotel in Kensington with Bowie and Hollywood actor Walter Matthau.

She said Clifford claimed Bowie would wink if he was interested in her for a role and she would have to go to a room with the star. ‘I was really nervous,’ she told Southwark crown court. ‘I didn’t turn up. I said I was ill.’

The woman is not among seven who claim Clifford indecently assaulted them between 1966 and 1984, which the 70-year-old from Hersham, Surrey, denies.

A former dancer also broke down in tears as she claimed Clifford told her nobody would believe he forced her to perform a sex act after offering her the chance to be a Bond girl.